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feet, playing among fir-trees laden with snow wreaths. On the west 
side of India they are not found to the north of 14° N. latitude. 
On the east they extend into Arakan, and to Borneo and Java, 
but not apparently into Siam or Cambodja. Along the eastern 
extension of the Himalayas they again occur in East Thibet ; a 
remarkable species with a large upturned nose (S. roxellana) 
having been discovered by Pere David at Moupin (about Lat. 
32° N.) in the highest forests, where the winters are severe and 
last for several months, and where the vegetation, and the other 
forms of animal life, are wholly those of the Pal sear ctic region. 
It is very curious that this species should somewhat resemble 
the young state of the proboscis monkey (S. nasalis ), which in- 
habits one of the most uniform, damp, and hot climates on the 
globe — the river-swamps of Borneo. 
Colobus, the African genus (11 species), is very closely allied 
to the preceding, differing chiefly in the thumb being absent or 
rudimentary. They are confined to the tropical regions — Abys- 
sinia on the east, and from the Gambia to Angola and the island 
of Eernando Po, on the west. 
Family 3.— CYNOPITHECHDE. (7 Genera, 67 Species). 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
PALjEARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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This family comprehends all the monkeys with cheek pouches, 
and the baboons. Some of these have very long tails, some none ; 
some are dog-faced, others tolerably round-faced ; but there are 
so many transitions from one to the other, and such a general 
agreement in structure, that they are now considered to form a 
very natural family. Their range is more extensive than any 
other family of Quadrumana, since they not only occur in every 
part of the Ethiopian and Oriental regions, but enter the Palse- 
arctic region in the east and west, and the Australian region as 
far as the islands of Timor and Batchian. The African genera 
